A modern day Edison has a bright idea: a way to keep the incandescent bulb burning brightly, despite a government law set to go into effect New Year’s Day that effectively outlaws the most commonly used lightbulbs.

Hundreds of members of the American Studies Association have voted to endorse the organization’s boycott of Israeli academic institutions, prompting at least one critic to say he’ll challenge the Washington-based group’s tax-exemption status.

John Hnatio, a Maryland small business owner, says the U.S. government has put his company, FoodquestTQ, nearly out of business by stealing his firm's software that was designed to be licensed to the Food and Drug Administration to monitor food safety.